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pre-floped adj. Drunk past the point of standing confidently, with both hands already committed to the table. pre-gamed adj. Describing a drinker who began the evening in advance and is now paying the advance back in daylight. pre-gaminged adj. Of a drinker who has taken refreshments before arriving, and is already asking where the next round is. pre-genred adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced the evening to a broad narrative in which every coatroom is significant. Lorde became pre-genred and assigned the cloakroom a central role in the night's narrative. pre-historied adj. Loosened by drink into a time before written records, including the record of arrival. Lillye became pre-historied and could offer no documentary account of the preceding hours. pre-hooked adj. A drinker so far gone that each approach to the bar runs immediately into the same familiar request. Nehmat was pre-hooked, reaching the bar and requesting the usual before removing his coat. pre-hypertensioned adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring a modest pressure, chiefly when asked to leave. Hallie-jo was pre-hypertensioned, developing modest pressure when asked to leave the sofa. pre-incremented adj. Reduced by drink to counting the next round before evaluating the one already in hand. Nicaela became pre-incremented and announced the fourth round while still carrying the third. pre-interviewed adj. Softened by drink into rehearsing every account of the evening before anyone has asked for one. pre-lashed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating arrival at the venue as the middle of an already successful evening. pre-main-sequence starred adj. Sharpened by drink into a brightness that the evening has not yet earned and cannot quite account for. pre-marriaged adj. Loosened by drink into behaving as though every present obligation belongs to a distinct administrative era, now closed. pre-medded adj. Emboldened by drink to diagnose the evening medically, beginning with whoever has misplaced the coats. pre-menstrual syndromed adj. A drinker so far gone that minor unease has become a mandate for dramatic, poorly timed intervention. Carmena went pre-menstrual syndromed and reported the lukewarm chips to Parliament. pre-moderationed adj. Slowed by drink to approve every conversation only after it has already reached the taxi queue. pre-mortemed adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting a thorough analysis of how the evening might fail. Haaheo got pre-mortemed and identified the coat hook as the night’s principal point of failure.